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The Fairground Fraction Fix

Asha and Dev have a makers’ fair to decorate, but their “halves” do not match. Follow a paper-banner mystery through equal wholes, equivalent fractions and a repair they can explain.

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Asha and Dev compare different-sized colourful paper pieces at their makers’ fair stall; the craft scene is not a scale fraction diagram.

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Page 1

Asha and Dev compare different-sized colourful paper pieces at their makers’ fair stall; the craft scene is not a scale fraction diagram.

The makers’ fair opened in an hour, and Asha and Dev were decorating their paper-model stall. Each had brought what they called half a banner strip. Asha’s piece was longer. “We both brought a half,” Dev said. “How can one be bigger?” They placed the pieces side by side. The problem was small enough to hide beneath a flower decoration, but Asha stopped. “Before we cover it up, let’s work out what our halves mean.”

Talk together: Both children say “half”. What would you need to know before deciding whether their pieces should be the same size?

Page 2

The children discover that their original blank paper strips have different lengths and discuss why their pieces do not match.

They fetched the original paper strips. Asha had started with a long strip; Dev’s had been shorter. Each child had divided their own strip into two equal parts. Both pieces really were halves, but they were halves of different wholes. “A half tells us a relationship,” Asha said. “It does not always tell us one fixed length.” Dev nodded. To compare their banner pieces fairly, they first needed to agree on the same-sized whole.

Talk together: Could half of a long ribbon be longer than half of a short ribbon? Explain without measuring either ribbon.

Page 3

Asha and Dev line up blank paper strips with a ruler on the craft table before making a precise fraction model.

Asha chose one blank strip as their whole. They made matching copies and lined up the ends to check that every copy had the same length and width. One copy would be divided into two equal parts, another into four and another into eight. “Equal parts within each whole,” Dev reminded himself. “Same-sized wholes across our comparison.” Their craft supplies were ready. Now they needed a careful fraction model to show those equal parts clearly.

Talk together: Why do we need both rules: equal parts in each strip and the same-sized whole across the strips?

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